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enUK Press Finds Possible 'Muslim,' 'Islamic' Plot to Kill Pope; AP Finds 'Street Cleaners'http://newsbusters.org/blogs/dave-pierre/2010/09/18/uk-press-finds-possible-muslim-islamic-plot-kill-pope-ap-finds-street-c
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Check out the following headlines in the British press about the arrest of six men who may have been planning to kill the Pope during his visit to England:
</p><ul><li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/200262/Muslim-plot-to-kill-Pope/">"Muslim Plot to Kill Pope"</a> (Daily Express)</li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/the-pope/8008981/Pope-visit-Five-suspected-Islamist-terrorists-arrested-over-assassination-plot.html">"Pope visit: Five suspected Islamist terrorists arrested over assassination plot"</a> (Telegraph)</li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1312918/POPES-UK-VISIT-Six-men-arrested-plot-harm-Benedict-XVI.html">"Police question six street cleaners held over plot to attack the Pope"</a> (Daily Mail) (2nd paragraph: "Armed officers detained the men, all believed to be Muslims of North African origin, as they prepared to go on shift at a cleaning depot in Central London.")</li>
</ul><p>Yet in neither of two separate articles by the Associated Press (<a target="_blank" href="http://hosted2.ap.org/txdam/f02866e54f4149c297ea6f51ff09935f/Article_2010-09-17-EU-Pope-Britain/id-f3316b73c8864e9597d1618e7664c690">Nicole Winfield</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2010/09/17/police_5_arrested_in_london_over_threat_to_pope/?page=full">David Stringer/Victor L. Simpson</a>) do the writers mention a possible extremist Muslim/Islamic connection. The writers simply identified the suspects as "London street cleaners."</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:55:18 +0000Dave Pierre38982 at http://newsbusters.org